[Python-Dev] PEP 340: Deterministic Finalisation (new PEP draft, either a competitor or update to PEP 340)

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Hmm, with that approach, a code inspection tool like pychecker could be used to 
> pick up the slack, and flag generators which have a yield inside a try/finally 
> or a user defined statement without applying the "needs finalisation" decorator 

What about giving them an __exit__ method if and only
if they have a yield inside a try/finally? Old generators
won't be doing that, because it's currently illegal.

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